Christopher Turnor (MP)

Christopher Turnor
Member of Parliament
for South Lincolnshire
In office
April 1841 – 1847
Personal details
Born(1809-04-04)4 April 1809
Died7 March 1886(1886-03-07) (aged 76)
NationalityEnglish, British
Political partyConservative
Known forMember of Parliament

Christopher Turnor MP, JP, DL (4 April 1809 – 7 March 1886), was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1841 to 1847, and a promoter of Lincolnshire architecture.

Christopher Turnor was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, a justice of the peace for parts of Kesteven and Lindsey in Lincolnshire, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1834. Turnor was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for South Lincolnshire in April 1841, and served until the 1847 general election. He was a member of the Carlton Club.[1][2][3][4] Turnor had succeeded his father in 1829 when he was only 20-year-old, he inherited 20,664 acres and a rental income of £27,000 a year.[5]

Stoke Rochford Hall

Christopher Turnor's great grandfather was Edmund Turnor (c. 1708–1769), of Stoke Rochford in Kesteven, and Panton in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire. His father was Edmund Turnor (1755–1829), FRS, FSA, MP for Midhurst, antiquarian, and the author of Collections for the History of the Town and Soke of Grantham Containing Authentic Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton.[2][6]

  1. ^ The Acre-ocracy of England: A List of All Owners of Three Thousand Acres and Upwards (1876) p. 195, from The Modern Domesday Book by John Bateman. Reprint Kessinger (2009). ISBN 1104476576
  2. ^ a b Raineval, Melville Henry, Marquis of Ruvigny and (1994) [1911]. The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume (Reprint ed.). Genealogical Publishing. pp. 129, 130, 392. ISBN 0806314354.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1905); Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour, Edinburgh: T C & E C Jack, p. 322
  4. ^ "No. 19125". The London Gazette. 4 February 1834. p. 206.
  5. ^ Delicto (22 October 2015). "STOKE ROCHFORD HALL". HOUSE AND HERITAGE. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  6. ^ "The Diaries of Dora Turnor" Archived 12 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Chetham's Library. Retrieved 3 January 2015